A 4-year-old girl in Missouri pretended to be asleep while her father shot and killed two people before turning the weapon on himself.

FOX 2 reports three bodies were discovered Friday following an apparent murder-suicide in Bellefontaine Neighbors.

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Just before midnight, police received a call indicating officers would find three dead people in the house. Minutes later, police discovered 31-year-old Dornubari Dugbor, his fiancée, 31-year-old Katrina Banks, and her son, 15-year-old Kevin Robinson, dead from gunshot wounds.

Dugbor had a 9mm pistol in his lap and a cellphone in his hand.

When police searched the home, they found a 4-year-old girl pretending to be asleep in her bedroom.

Police said the child heard the first gunshot and went into the living room to find her mother dead on the floor. Dugbor told the girl to go back to her room.

"The girlfriend and boyfriend, they were recently engaged in January. We know they had some kind of relationship for the past four years because the 4-year-old was a child in common," Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Chief Jeremy Ihler said.

The girl was not harmed, but was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

"She was close enough to the event where she heard the gunshots and heard other scuffles and talk during the event and I would imagine a 4-year-old is going to be scared from this type of event. I feel for her greatly," Ihler said.